Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience was outspoken Robert R. Young, there to receive an "Oscar of industry" for the 1945 report of his Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. As Young rose to accept the award, he also accepted Snyder's invitation. When his speech (and the banquet) ended some four minutes later, a red-faced Mr. Snyder got up at once and angrily walked...
...this chaotic juncture the Duquesne company offered a 5% rise. George, in his cell, had a change of heart. He apologized to the court and even demanded that he be let out of jail so that he could persuade his union to accept the new proposal. The court agreed. But when George was out of the coop, he immediately maneuvered his union into rejecting any settlement until the court lifted the injunction. The city gave in. The injunction was withdrawn...
...only alternative to the Soviet program of intransigent separatism and Russification of Germany is to accept. . . the challenge. For so long have we let the Russians go ahead with their program that by this time they . . . have got a head start over the Western world. . . . Our only hope of combatting the Russian campaign is to use our resources in building up the non-munitions industry of western Germany. There is a long way to go. So moribund have we been that the economic activity in the British and American zones is nowhere even near the low level permissible under...
...national strike committee quickly approved the terms, recommended that striking locals do so too. If they did, said a strike official hopefully, the men would go back to work just as fast as the mills could be restarted. Mill owners had still to accept the terms. But the Government's offer was made in such a way that they would be hard put to it to turn it down. If they accepted, the strikers had won a notable victory...
...UNESCO celebration. There will be no New York trip this year for the Old Vic, which will be busy: 1) building a new and ideally designed theater on the ruins of its blitzed birthplace; 2) starting a school of the theater, which by 1948 expects to be ready to accept American and other foreign students...